According to the Liverpool Echo, Garcia believes it could take the 23-year-old some time to reach top form.

“It’s not easy to come into the Premier League and adapt. I think that he’s a very good player but you have to give him time to adapt to the pace of the game, to the players, the different situations in games.

“He’s a player that wants to do things to change games, like Coutinho does at the moment.”